The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-06-25
MARYLAND Affairs.

1Ul years Ol0 OA tAS N''
Some new wheat from Virginia arrived in
Baltimore last Saturday, and sold at Sl.Ol and
LOO.
Sol. Ackerman has been arrested for at
tempting to burn his store at Oxford, Talbot
county.
Wheat harvest on the Eastern Shore, ex-
cept in the two upper counties, is about over,
and the yield is reported good.
Commencement exercises at st. Johns
College, Annapolis, begin on Monday and
will continue until Thursday, graduating day.
Hagerstown' water supply is to be increased
by the aid of an artesian we'll. A test of the
well last week showed flow of 250,000 gal
Ions day.
Davis & Mooreis kindling wood factory, at
fredericksburg, Caroline county, was burned
last Saturday evening, involving loss OF
about $4,000.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Raine, mother of Col.
Fred Raine, of Baltimore, died in Dakota on
Wednesday, in her 9lst year. She was
native of Minden, Germany.
The seven independent military companies
of the state are to be organized into two bat
talions, and every captain in each is a candi-
date for major of the battalion.
The champion marble player of Cumber..
land. according to the News, is a lad named
Hilty, who shoots with his toes, having lost
both arms in a railroad accident.
W. W. Corcoran is so much improved in
health that he left Washington on Tuesday for
Deer Park, where he will occupy the cottage
of Robert Garrett, President of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad.
/ The Court of Appeals have snstai ned the
lower court on the Baltimore city election
| Judge convictions and in the Ross case, for
the killing of Emily Brown and selling her
body to medical school.
Jacob Wann, respected citizen of Hartford
county, died at his home near The Hickory,
ilast week, in the 9Sth year of his age. His
death was caused by the dislocation of his hip
from an accidental fall last week.
The Stowmans Unions have challenged the
Frederick Club to play them for the amateur
championship of the State. Frederick will
accept, provided they have their own umpire
and the games are played at Frederick.
A freight train ran into the rear of pick
up train, with passenger car attached, on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Keyser, w.
Va, on Sunday. Four passengers and two
trainmen were injured and several cars
wrecked.
Mr.. John Mehring, of Frederick, has pur-
chased from Joseph F. McCluskey, of near
Araby, Frederick county, a strange freak of
nature in the form Of an animal, half of which
is sheep and the other half calf. The an
imal has been alive five weeks, and gives
every sign of surviving.
VIM. Freeze, aged about % years, of Me-
chanicstown, Frederick county who received a
sunstroke when he was IL years of age, which
caused acute mania and his commitment to
Montevue, where he remained until about q
year ago, when he was discharged, was last
week recommtted to that institution, suffering
with a return of the malady.
Rev Arthur J. Rich, assisted by Rev. P.
d. Trapier, on Monday, at Montrose Chapel,
on the estate of Archibald Stirling, near Glen
Falls, baptized Archibald the infant son of
is the fourth Archibald in the Stirling family,
and all are alive. The father, grandfather
and great. grandfather are all named Archibald
Stirling.
Mr.. William Percy Tilghman, of Maryland,
| formerly Vice Consul General at Berlin, and
now in charge ofthe consulate at Rotterdam,
who came to America expressly to bring suit
| for 100000 against the New York World for
| libel, has, it is stated, compromised with Mr..
| Pulitzer for $4,000 and an agreement to
make public withdrawal of all the allega-
tons which we're made against him.
Charles Deal, of Oakland, who is confined
in Jail at Cumberland charged with cattle
stealing, attempted suicide on Tuesday even.
ing by cutting himself in the wrist. He lost
considerable blood, but was discovered and
his life saved by the Jail physician. He used
pocket knife, which he had secreted. He
had written letter to his parents announcing
his intention, and indicating his feeling of
disgrace as the cause.
Ben Hance, colored, was taken from the
Leonardtown, St. Mary's county, Jail early on
Friday morning of last week, and hung to
tree. Hance had committed a felonious
assault on Miss Alice Baily, near Head Of the
Bay. several weeks previous. The negro
confessed his crime and said he ought to be
hung. Delay in the Biscoe trial, and the
costs, is supposed to have caused the people
to act for themselves.
Miss Grace Lenere made another ascent in
her balloon on Thursday at COLCHESTER Beach.
After going up some distance the balloon
started out towards the bay. The 1900 per-
sons who witnessed the freak became very
much excited, The steamer Louise was at
once sent after the balloon, which fell about
three miles from shore. When the boat
reached Miss Lenere she was very much ex
HdNobCd liOtA tuS CsOdHihS Setot ouo WaS tahOH
safely back to the Beach amid the shouts Of
the exeursionsts.
Hon. James Lawrence Bartol, for sixteen
years chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland, and for twenty.six years a member
of that tribunal, died at $50 O. clock Thursday
morning at the residence of his son-in-law,
Charles E. Hitchcock, 1903 Bolton street,
near Mosher, Baltimore. Judge Bartol had
been an invalid ever since his resignation in
1888 on account of i'll health, aud had not left
his room since December ~, 1885. He was
born at HqvFe dc Grace June 4, 1914, studied
lay, praeticed at Denton, in Caroline county,
seVeR years, then moved to baltimore.
The trial of Jacob Sternheimer, Martin ].
Clark and Henry Gado, judges, and Hezekiah
S. Best and John W. Mcmahon, clerks Of
election for the SECOND precinct Of the thir-
teenth ward, baltimore, for conspiracy to de.
fraud at the municipal election held October
81, 1886, resulted in the Criminal Court on
Tuesday in the conviction of Clark, Best and
Mcmahon and the acquittal Of Gado and
Sternheimer. The penalty for conspiracy at
the common law is imprisonment not exceed
ing two years or fine of not more than 81 900,
or both fine and imprisonment.
j. A. Walrath, inspector for the bureau of
animal industry, visited several farms in the |
second district OF Howard county ON Monday |
TO make investigation as to reported pleuro |
pneumonia in that section. Mr.. Walrath |
atates that he found no signs Of the disease in
that locality, and that all the stock examined
by him showed evidences ofthe best of health. |
In one or two instances cattle have been
killed on account of the disease by order, 81,
the health department, and Mr.. WalF'HI
thinks the precautionary measures adoP IN
have resulted satisfactorily in exterminS|f u
the eantagip1 altogether from the HOY Il.
anHpty herds, {oA
A severe storm passed over porticto tpf
Kent county on Tuesday night and W.T.
day morning. In every direction its DIE
tive force can be seen, and much dam has
been done to the peach orchards, buyp,tgs,
&c. On the Rock Hall farm new bVep Ing,
60 feet long, used as storehogse, b. .6ipe
shop and hephppae, FeeentlE built, VI |. com
nletelF destroyed, not q board REM Pic on
the foundation. Stones, barrels Of olidtools,
&c., we're tossed in the Geld, and u ans car
ried some distance. A more comthg wreck
GOULD not have happened, In thg " age lit
lie damage was done, ~ Il was le,t ON the
edge Of the hurricane, but vests IN north.
along the bay, the damage hase3 n great. ,
A small belt Of hail did much d ye TO the {
young corn The wheat having'ir en- mostly